Re: [squid-users] "Efficiency" of around 10%, is that normal

Not sure what "efficiency" means, but if it means cache hit rate, that
largely can depend on your users, and on the cacheability of the content
they're fetching.

--On September 18, 2006 1:21:20 PM -0700 Bas Rijniersce
<brijniersce@Seaspanltd.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was used to getting efficiencies of around 50%. My current setup does
> not get past 10% as reported by Calamaris. There are around 40 people
> behind the proxy. After Googling around I added the following lines to
> squid.conf:
>
> cache_mem 256 MB
> maximum_object_size 32 MB
> maximum_object_size_in_memory 128 KB
>
> System has 512Mb of memory and very little other tasks. Is there
> anything else I can do to improve efficieny?
>
> Thank you,
> Bas
>
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